Corset-stay.



W. H. PLEGHSING.

CORSET STAY. APPLICATION FILED MAY 4,1911.

1,038,107, Patented Sept. 10,1912.

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:oLuMalA PLANOGRAPH 00., WASHINGTON. D c.

UNITED s ATn's PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM HENRY FLECHSING, o rvro'ronm, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

CORSET-STAY;

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY.

FLEoHsING, subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Victoria,in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Corset-Stays; and I do declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make anduse the same.

This invention relates to improvements in corset stays.

The object of the invention is to provide a corset stay havingreinforcing means at the waistline where the greatest strain is exertedand at which point ordinary stays usually break or bend permanently outof shape.

Another object is to provide a corset stay reinforced at the waistlineand so constructed that it will readily yield without breaking when thebody of the wearer is bent at the waistline and which will assume itsnormal straight position when the pressure of the body thereon isrelieved.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certainnovel features of construction, and the combination and arrangement ofparts as will be more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 represents a front elevation of aside stay constructed in accordance with this invention; Fig. 2represents a rear elevation thereof; Fig. 3 represents an edge view withthe parts in the position which they assume when pressure is exerted onthe inner face of the stay such as would be exerted by the bending ofthe body of the wearer at the waistline, the dottedlines of said figureshowing the parts in normal position; Fig.

4: is a perspective view of one of the sections of the side stay shownin the figures. above described; Fig. 5 is a front elevation of a pairof front corset stays showing this invention applied thereto.

In the embodiment illustrated in Figs. 1

to 4, the invention is shown applied to a metal side bone or stay of acorset and in Fig. 5 to a pair of front closing sta s, the inventionbeing the same in all'the gures. Each stay is composed of upper andlower sections 1 and 2 hingedly connected at their,

inner or meeting ends. Each of the sections Specification of LettersPatent. Patented Sept. 10, 1912. Application filed ma 4, 1911.

Serial so; 624,961."

1 and 2 has a recess, as 3, formed in one side stay. The inner end wallof each of these recesses 8 is preferably rolled to form a hinge knuckle4 for the reception of a pintle 5, the knuckles of the two sectionsbeing arranged transversely of the stay in alinement with each other toreceive said pintle. The end of each section which extends be yond theknuckle thereof forms an extension 6. The extension of one sectionoverlaps the outer faceof the adjacent section and forms a resilientreinforcing member for the section which it overlaps. The free end ofeach extension being slidable longitudinally on the section which itoverlaps, when the stay is bent in the direction shown in full lines inFig. 3, the free ends of the extensions resist the bending of the stayand tend to return the sections to their normal position, shown indotted lines in said figure, when pressure is released.

The sections 1 and 2 are slit longitudinally at the base of theextensions 3 to provide for the operation of the hinge which connectsthe two sections and to permit said extensions 3 to bend gradually atthis point when the stay is bent. The recesses 3 are arranged inopposite sides of the respective sections to provide for the dispositionof the hinge knuckle of one section under the extension of the othersection whereby when the parts are assembled these knuckles are arrangedat the inner face of the stay and the resilient tongues or extensions 3are arranged on its outer face, as shown clearly in the drawings.

In Fig. 5 two front closing stays 7 and 8 are shown whichare composed ofhingedly connected "sect-ions constructed similarly to the side staysdescribed above. Any suitable closing devices may be provided for thesefront stays, those here shown being in the form of hooks 9 carried bythe stay 7 which are adapted to be engaged by catch members 10 carriedby the stay 8.

'From the foregoing description, taken in -connection with theaccompanying drawings, the construction and operation of the inventionwill be readily understood without requiring a more extendedexplanation.

Various changes in the form, proportion and the minor details ofconstruction may be resorted-towithout departing from the principle orsacrificing any of theadvantages of the invention claimed. I claim asmyvinvention:

A corset stay comprising two sections,

each having a recess in its inner side edge; and a tongue projectinginto its recess, each .tongue having at its end a hinge knuckle,: "thetwo sections being laterally overlapped Copies of thispatent may beobtained for five cents each, by addressing the f Commissioner ofPatents, Washington, 1).;0.

